Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting org.apache.seata:seata-core package, versions [1.0.0,2.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.44% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHESEATA-7986108
  • published 17 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 16 Sep 2024
  • credit X1r0z

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.seata:seata-core to version 2.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data. When developers disable authentication and do not use the client SDK dependencies, they may construct uncontrolled serialized malicious requests by directly sending bytecode based on the Seata private protocol.

Details

Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.

Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
9.2 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    High
  • Integrity (VI)
    High
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None